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Ed did I ever tell you I repaired drivers education simulators. Yep, sure did. The $5,000 dollar simulation tape that was made for the trial, which the railroad drug the grandfather out of the bar and settled for $375,000 so it was never used, had .25 thats 1/4 of a second react/stop time. Will work out to a crash every time Ed no matter how you stir the pot. Guess what ED? The same engineer had killed another girl at the same crossing ED, and the girl had the same .25 second reaction stop time. You know what the qualified traffic engineer who the government had paid to help make the FHWA sight manual said Ed? Well he said with the sight triangles given the driver with all the sight obstructions and the Mickey Mouse cross-buck (yield) sign that the train needed to going between 8 and 11 mph to give the driver time to see it and stop (private crossing no whistles) and that a stop sign was needed. Well Ed the train was supposedly going in the mid-40s mph both times and who really knows it could have been going 80 mph and STILL no stop signs. Did the stupid BNSF track foreman Cotton Smith Cuba, Mo. yard install stop signs ED? No way because he knows diddly about traffic engineering. Oh I forgot that was the first killing. Now since the second killing still no Stop signs Ed? The idiots have paid out over half a million dollars and refuse to put in $50,000 gates if the true priceing was known or even $100 dollars worth of Stop signs. And every other Private crossing on the line has stop signs. It's like he's seeing how many people he can get killed and how much he can cost BNSF by not putting the right sign for the traffic situation!!!! The railroad could have went to Court and won according to you ED with NO problem. You think they forked out $375,000 out of the goodness of their heart or you think they thought they were screwed? Still by saveing millions on maintenance at all the crossings it still comes out its "CHEAPER TO KILL 'EM" than properally maintain the crossings. You know like the explodeing gas tank on the pinto or the bad tires covered up. Well bad crossings are going to be exposed as the same cover-up here most scosh. The god awful Attorney we had Terry Brown, Belleview, Ill. who had another Missouri case which the jury had awarded $160 million Alcorn vs. Up/Amtrak to work with says "take this out of settlement or I'm walking" during jury selection. Then he lied to the Federal judge and said he was fired. He had no intention on going to court which was his "sworn" duty when he took the case if his clients wanted to go to court which they did. So Ed BNSF had every opportunity to go to court but they insisted on weaseling out.And this guy Brasher thier attorney well he's down below the whale dung slimeing around I think. Brasher William A Attorney 211 North Broadway, Saint Louis, MO 63102 (314) 621-7700
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